Eden plays of light
The Eden-Lichtspiele were a Lübeck cinema .
Volks-Kino civic association
Dating back to the 13th century coming home in the King's Road 25 was in 1844 by the Sociable club converted into a guest house with an event hall for chamber concerts on the 1st floor with a neoclassical facade has been provided. In 1907 it became the Gesellschaftshaus Bürgererverein .
At the turn of the year 1918/1919, the photographer Erich Dietrich (* 1892; † 1949) converted the hall into a cinema with 301 seats, even though the architectural conditions were unfavorable: The fire police criticized the inadequate escape routes and emergency exits via a wobbly staircase led into a courtyard known as a human trap. Approval to operate the cinema was only reluctantly granted; a satisfactory solution to the problem has never been found.
On May 22, 1919, Dietrich opened the Volks-Kino Bürgererverein , but had to close again after a few weeks due to lack of success.
Chamber light games
The cinema was taken over by Ernst Furtmiller , given a new interior design and reopened on March 12, 1920 under the name Kammer-Lichtspiele . Furtmiller soon gave up too. After another renovation under a third owner, another reopening took place on March 18, 1921.
The Kammer-Lichtspiele did not bring any owner lasting success. Between 1919 and 1932 the cinema had a total of six owners.
Eden
On the occasion of the reopening after another change of ownership, the cinema was given the name Eden on November 2, 1928 . In 1932, August Haase from Schwerin acquired the cinema and had it run by his daughter Minna Kirch . Under her direction, the Eden became a cinema specializing in crime and adventure films.
The cinema survived the Second World War unscathed, but was confiscated by the British occupying forces after the end of the war and turned into a cinema for the Eastern European Displaced Persons living in Lübeck . On June 21, 1948, the day of the currency reform , Minna Kirch received the Eden back. Together with the Dutchman Bernhard Kuyper , she continued to run the business with a focus on adventure and western films .
Since the termination of the lease was foreseeable and security deficiencies made a renovation necessary, Minna Kirch separated from the Eden in the spring of 1951 in order to build the completely new city on a plot of land a few houses away . The Eden was taken over by Lübeck architect Helmuth Ehrich , who had developed the conversion plans for the Burgtor-Lichtspiele a few years earlier . In the summer of 1951, the Eden reopened after the renovation work was completed.
After Helmuth Ehrich's death, his son Manfred leased the cinema to the cinema operators Albert Kieft and Wilhelm Grießhammer in 1975 . In the meantime, in addition to westerns and action films, sex films and porn films have predominantly been part of the Eden’s program.
From the summer of 1979 to the end of 1981, the Lichtspielhaus was an eden-programm-kino program cinema for artistically valuable films, retrospectives and the performances of the non-commercial cinema working group . Because of the inadequate technical equipment and the unsatisfactory financial results, after two years the art house cinema offer was reduced to a few days of the week, while sex films and westerns were shown again on the remaining days.
At the beginning of 1985, Kieft and Grießhammer stopped operating the Eden-Lichtspiele before the lease expired. The listed building since 1968 was sold in 2016. The furnishing of the film projection room was given to a museum; the cinema seats were sold. A reactivation of the cinema is not planned by the new owners due to a lack of profitability.
See also
- List of Lübeck cinemas
- As an architectural specialty, the building with the built-on baroque corner building at Glockengießerstraße is under one roof. It is the last example of a corner building of this kind in Lübeck. The property line between the two parcels can be easily guessed by the different color of the roof tiles. The development on Glockengießerstrasse originally consisted of six stalls. The gable to Königstraße received its tail gable in the 18th century. In the 19th century, the property was divided into today's main building at Königstrasse 25 and the building at Glockengießerstrasse 1 (up to 11).
literature
- Klaus J. Groth : World Heritage Lübeck - Listed Houses. Schmidt-Römhild , Lübeck 1999. ISBN 3-7950-1231-7
- Petra Schaper: Cinemas in Lübeck . Verlag Graphische Werkstätten GmbH, Lübeck 1987. ISBN 3-925402-35-7
Web links
- Website of the current renovation project
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 10.37 " N , 10 ° 41 ′ 21.56" E